{"id":5954,"date":"2012-07-20T09:36:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T16:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2012-07-20T10:02:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T17:02:25","slug":"beetle-bonk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5954","title":{"rendered":"Beetle bonk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I watched a (female) Bee-mimic Beetle\u00a0(<em>Trichiotinus assimilis<\/em>)\u00a0forage\u00a0for pollen on purple yarrow.<\/p>\n<p>I was not the only watcher. As you can see in the pictures below, a male Bee-mimic Beetle also spotted her.<\/p>\n<p>A female Bee-mimic Beetle is collecting pollen from yarrow.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5957\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/beemimicbeetle120719as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The male lands on top of her.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5955\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/beemimicbeetle120719cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And, we have contact.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5956\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/beemimicbeetle120719bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I watched a (female) Bee-mimic Beetle\u00a0(Trichiotinus assimilis)\u00a0forage\u00a0for pollen on purple yarrow. I was not the only watcher. As you can see in the pictures below, a male Bee-mimic Beetle also spotted her. A female Bee-mimic Beetle is collecting pollen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5954\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5954"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5969,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions\/5969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}